If the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both.

As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.

And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided with Hizballah, when they're trying to reach out to the rest of the Sunni world in the region? That's not a good equation for Russia.

Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.

I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.